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Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase


From: Jan Tore Morken <nanog () jantore net>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:55:56 +0100

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 01:32:50PM -0700, David wrote:
I found devices doing lookups for all of these at the same time
{0,0.uk,0.us,asia,europe,north-america,south-america,oceania,africa,europe}.pool.ntp.org
and then it proceeds to use everything returned, which explains why
everyone is seeing an increase.

Thanks, David. That perfectly matches the list of servers used by
older versions of the ios-ntp library[1][2], which would point toward
some iPhone app being the source of the traffic.

[1] https://github.com/jbenet/ios-ntp/blob/d5eade6a99041094f12f0c976dd4aaeed37e0564/ios-ntp-rez/ntp.hosts
[2] https://github.com/jbenet/ios-ntp/blob/5cc3b6e437a6422dcee9dec9da5183e283eff9f2/ios-ntp-lib/NetworkClock.m#L122

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Jan Tore Morken


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